Clean Air & Water Archives

Jul 07, 2025

Officials Allow Polluting New Bedford Trash Facility to Proceed

In partnership with the community, CLF has been actively opposing the expanded facility.

Photo: image of garbage truck carrying waste from a dumpster into a waste transfer station or a landfill.

Jun 28, 2025

Looking for Leadership on Climate? Rhode Island General Assembly Says “Nothing to See Here!”

Rhode Island legislators chose inaction on issues critical to the health and well-being of Rhode Islanders.

Jun 17, 2025

Lawmakers Greenlight Loophole for Casella to Bring More Out-of-State Waste to Maine

This bill allows Casella to yet again fill the landfill with other states’ construction waste, creating toxic garbage juice that ultimately flows into waterways, like the Penobscot River, and puts people at risk.

A sprawling landfill under a bright sky, with piles of mixed waste. A bulldozer sits atop the waste, processing the layers. The scene conveys the scale of waste disposal and the potential for strong smells often associated with landfill operations and the mix of garbage.

Jun 17, 2025

Maine Lawmakers Miss the Mark on Climate and Transportation

This failure keeps us stuck in the same polluting patterns that harm our health, our wallets, and our communities.

Clean car standards are good for our health, good for the environment, and good for our wallets.

Jun 12, 2025

CLF Appeals State’s Approval of Manchester Wastewater Permit

CLF is appealing New Hampshire’s approval of a permit that allows the Manchester Wastewater Treatment Facility to discharge toxic PFAS chemicals – also known as “forever chemicals” – into the Merrimack River.

Jun 12, 2025

Fishy Business: How Industrial Fish Farms Foul New England’s Waters

Aquaculture fish farms are polluting the Gulf of Maine and harming native fish populations. CLF is suing to make them clean up their act.

Jun 11, 2025

Conservation Matters: Summer 2025

With more boots on the ground than ever across all six New England states, we will be undaunted in these fights and the many others to come.

Magazine cover showing an underwater net filled with fish. Text reads Conservation Matters, a journal of Conservation Law Foundation. Beneath the Surface of Factory Fish Farms

Jun 09, 2025

CLF Reaches Clean Air Lawsuit Settlement with CT School Bus Operator

Conservation Law Foundation and All-Star Transportation settled a lawsuit over Clean Air Act violations from harmful tailpipe emissions in Brookfield, New Milford, Seymour, and Waterbury.

May 30, 2025

VT Bill Takes Small Steps on Agricultural Water Pollution Oversight

This bill takes important first steps and creates a needed stakeholder process, but it doesn’t confront the root cause of Vermont’s broken system: the divided jurisdiction over agricultural water pollution.

May 29, 2025

The Truth About Indoor Air Quality

We spend so much time indoors, working, studying, exercising, or just lounging around on the couch that indoor air quality – or the lack of it – can profoundly affect our health.